A tree species once thought to be extinct is thriving in Michigan. The dawn redwood was rediscovered in the 1940s. Since then ...

Yes, you can grow redwood and sequoia trees in Southern California. Rick Akers, who lives in Long Beach, has mature specimens that prove the point. “I planted both from seedlings I procured at ...

Save the Redwoods League hopes to plant 30,000 giant sequoia seedlings at their Alder Creek grove property, as part of their ongoing efforts to restore groves devastated by wildfires in recent ...

Aging giant sequoia trees are growing faster than ever, with some of the oldest and tallest trees producing more wood, on average, in old age than they did when they were younger. (Read about ...

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

Ancient trees pack a record of ancient events. And now scientists have used 52 of the world's oldest trees — giant sequoia redwoods in California's western Sierra Nevada — to show that the ...

Two types of iconic sequoia trees have grown tall and strong in a surprising place: Michigan. One was believed to be extinct less than 100 years ago. The other is the largest living thing on Earth ...

The oldest known dawn redwoods are about 250, while the giant sequoia is known to live more than 3,000 years and the coast redwood can live more than 2,000 years, according to NPS.